skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It sounds like the marketing was all wrong. They wanted to sell it as a premium feature for DVD players, but consumers shopping for a DVD player weren't interested in a pricey upsell to play a tiny number of games and whatever other features they bundled.

What they should have done was position it as a premium games machine that included a "free" DVD player. Sony had massive success with this approach for the PlayStation 2, which I would guess was the first DVD player that most of its purchasers had owned.
As I understood it, BlackBerry is a different case from GameStop—albeit some redditors are trying to make it do the same thing because it's cheaper. I've been holding that one for years for a reason.
If you'd like a fun, light, video introduction to this topic, this Vsauce video is worth a watch: https://youtu.be/egEraZP9yXQ
I find those quotes absolutely normal, what's wrong with them?
Consistent project organization is an area React struggles, so I really like seeing organizations publish standards like this!

The flexibility of a React project structure gives users a lot of freedom you won't get with something like Ember, but keeping a standard structure can have some huge payoffs especially inside a company with many codebases.

Great post!
Not a solution, but perhaps a workaround: a shared email account, hooked up to both of your phones/computers, used for childcare-related matters.

You'd have to be careful about checking things even marked read, but this may solve the issue. Alternately an email address that forwards to both of your addresses.
The unpublished puppy experiment: https://youtu.be/9xpsVlY3QQc?t=39m

Edit: found paper link: https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1972-24881-001
>Look at Melvin - they are trying to convince the market they are still solvent.

From the article in my previous comment:

>Even assuming the worst case scenario here (let’s assuming somehow the put value was $10 and they held until now and the put is worthless, the max loss is $54 million for a hedge fund with $20 billion AUM, for a max risk of about 0.27%), Melvin Capital is sleeping fine. Because they bought puts, and didn’t short shares directly, their max loss is capped (the premium they paid).
According to MDN you can choose one of the following MIME types:

text/plain
text/uri-list
text/csv
text/html
image/svg+xml
application/xml, text/xml
application/json

So at the very least there's image/svg+xml, but that is pretty limiting.
Which degree should we start judging at?

When people deduct taxes for donations to universities to increase the odds of their child being accepted?

When people deduct taxes for charity to their church/temple/organization/other tribe in order to direct resources in a way that might benefit them more directly versus the nation as a whole?

It's either legal or it's not. If you want the "abuse" to stop, then elect the legislators that will make the loopholes illegal.
It's possible that they simple moved the positions to P72 or Cit's books so they could claim they no longer hold the position. The intent would be to encourage retailers to declare victory and sell. IANAL so I could be off, but if it were legal, it is definitely plausible.
A lot of hospitals now separate the husbands and wives when they come in together, and will usually ask those questions very carefully when the husband is not present. It’s a good practice, but pretty annoying if the wife has anxiety and wants to stay together.
Wow. Great write up and cool timeline format. I had never heard of the "Open Startup" [1] idea and clicked - and was stunned (positively) about the transparency.

[1]: https://www.bannerbear.com/open/

Edit:
Is this a thing now showing the numbers for the world to see? I like it - but just have no prior experience.
> classical RAD from the late 90s early 00s.

RAD, a.k.a. UI-nailed-down-to-pixel-grid approach, has died immediately after we've switched from 640x480 pixel screens to variety of display and devices.

If in doubts think about Adaptive and Responsive Designs ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Responsive_web_design ) in regards of RAD.
You would also need to reimplement the paid features yourself. Only the core (free) gitlab is open source.
Sounds like its just sitting there taking up space and ought to be decommissioned, and its too big for a museum piece. Documenting the history should be enough. This is a good thing, because it means the area is busy, and that means more stuff going to space.
It is a sunk cost for them. They literally cannot get it back. But for somebody new why should they have to pay this cost if there are many less expensive ways to describe a UI. The lowest common denominator is now invading everything including native. This often happens but it is regrettable.
The Pinecone Vector Database Launches with $10M in Seed Funding
"Tax evasion" refers to illegal actions to indeed evade tax lawfully due.

"Tax avoidance" is the perfectly legal practice of (more or less aggressively) minimising the amount of tax lawfully due.

Everyone engages in tax avoidance at least to a degree.
I think there is some place for these not quite ready junior devs. I have worked at and with some dev agencies and there seems to be a lack of technical QA on majority of projects.

My idea is to hire these devs that aren't ready to write code themselves, and have them do lots of technical QA. Pull down the code, run it on their machine, test all endpoints in Postman, write some simple scripts, etc. Then after several months doing that, give them a raise to move them closer to a dev salary and move them to active dev work.

You get to 1. Hire devs at a big discount since they won't be doing dev work quite yet. 2. Get to work with them for several months before letting them get active on code. 3. Even with the raise post QA period, they would be at a below market rate for junior devs.

Junior devs get 1. Experience in a technical position. 2. Opportunity to continue learning and see what it takes to build professional quality code. 3. On ramp to being a dev.

Maybe I got the numbers wrong on this and it isn't feasible. But it seems like a good tradeoff for agencies to bring on devs. Because devs are crazy expensive in the US and agencies have a hard time bringing them in while staying profitable.
It's not easy to generate the kind of momentum you need to pull off something like what's been happening. WSB has been pushing GME for months. Then things got heated with them and the major shorts, it brought more attention to it, and GME shot up quite a bit. That amplified the story even more, which brought it more demand for GME. That cycle has just continued, building more and more interest each time.

I don't believe the story has come close to reaching its peak yet either. I suspect there will start to be some major headlines still this week, which will bring in more speculative interest.

Then, at some point, the story fizzles. The gains stop and the price will collapse. It's going to be an interesting week or so watching this all play out.
i believe one of the culprits for software taking so long is planning. this is alluded to in marty cagan's excellent book _Inspired_.

first, the caveat: a software dev project will take up as much time as is allotted to it. when you have more than enough time allotted for a project, most people either spend more time in research or allow themselves partial implementation paths of multiple solutions to help decide which one is best. on the other end of the project, every project can be polished forever. so dev projects will take as least as much time as has been allotted to it.

when we go through the planning process, it usually follows something like this:

1. dev estimates how many "points" (which translates into time in most peoples mind) to allot to a task. dev then pads it to account for dev optimism and wanting to make sure they have the chance of meeting the "committment"
2. program/project/product manager pads the number a bit further because they've been burned in the past on dev optimistic estimates and it's better to underpromise and overdeliver
3. dev proceeds on the task with the bloated estimate baked in and the task takes the full time allotted to it. it's baked inefficiency.

part of the problem is the concept of "committment" for estimates. good scrum organizations have changed that term to "prediction" instead of "committment" since this has been such a big problem. but even that isn't enough to solve the political capital lost when you "predict" wrong.

i think that any estimation above "t-shirt size" is going to bake this inefficiency into your process. the solution is less planning and more doing.
But why? Who will profit?
I agree, but I'm not optimistic that "better platform" is sufficient to win. Notably, Twitter's secret sauce is addiction, thus it's inherently difficult for many people to choose the healthier option (at least in a long-term capacity). Moreover, as a platform, Twitter can provide an audience a lot more readily than SubStack. I'm concerned that there's enough of SubStack's model that Twitter can copy without compromising their addiction-peddling business model that they will be able to out-compete SubStack, to the world's detriment.
> Note that AMD has been beating Apple on single core performance since day 1

On EEMBC CoreMark. But CoreMark is not a meaningful benchmark outside of embedded devices.

From your linked article: "CoreMark focuses solely on the core pipeline functions of a CPU, including basic read/write, integer, and control operations. This specifically avoids most effects of system differences in memory, I/O, and so forth."

Memory & I/O are integral to CPU design, which is why AMD's own marketing material emphasizes it so much.
> Depends. I'm in a rural area, and I get 5-second power cuts every couple of months. It's the main reason I have a UPS under my computer desk.

This. Can't put the coffee maker on an UPS though. Or not on a cost effective UPS.

> So your answer is probably that demand for that feature is far from universal, and a coffee machine is much lower stakes than for example an alarm clock.

Actually for the alarm clock i'm just going to be late. Not having coffee hurts much more!
Religious people argue that religion is an objective truth.
There is a compromise -- dedicated birthing centers that are operated by midwifes, where getting to the emergency room and NICU is expedited. Birth shouldn't be treated as a medical procedure, unless there is a serious complication.
What I mean is buying land is not a commitment to anything good or bad. It just means they can now use the land for anything they want.

> ikea doesn't need to buy the forest for the wood

This is a great investment, and this is business. It is ridiculous to think they're buying it just to offset their footprint.
LZ4 is not going to help, if you already have compressed data.

For image, video and audio there are more efficient compressions taking advantage of those formats.
(Some?) Of the people carrying gme are saying that because >100% of the float on gme is shorted with ~6 days to cover; gme only needs to stay high until the shorters are forced to cover their short by buying at whatever prices they can.
Thanks for the warning. I don't care about what Newsweek writes, but I mistakenly believed that International Business Times is a legitimate publication and have used it in citations before, from now on I'll start avoiding it as much as possible. Just checked on Wikipedia, IBT has been flagged as unreliable since 2019.

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:IBTIMES
> But there is no willingness to do so after the US of A deeply harmed the scientific mission and academics by introducing infuriatingly dumb economical incentives into science.

What are you referring to here?
To quote @mumblemumble:

"""

There's another side to this, though. Letting kids roam the internet can give ones who might otherwise be doomed to become misfits an opportunity to find community. Being a queer kid pre-Internet, for example, sucked, and the Web rolling out to households changed a lot of kids' lives. And we have a poor cultural memory of what that experience used to be like, because, before the rise of online communities, a big part of being queer - especially being a queer kid - was being subjected to systematic erasure.

I'm not sure how you balance those two things. My sense, though, is that the balance was better 20, 25 years ago, when the Internet had more small, individualized communities. Most of them have since been squashed by the rise of the social media oligopoly.

"""

I don't know if the downsides are worse for Facebook or Twitter (engineered for eyeballs and ad clicks), than forums, or where Discord lies on the spectrum.
http://archive.is/5c1pZ
I agree. There really needs to be a team first sort of culture to produce the best outcome of giving individual members more say. It is probably hard to ensure that always happens, but I think if you hire people who generally want the same things and work hard amoung other things, then you'll get there most of the time.
I've found this repo to have a lot of useful questions, obviously you have to tailor based on what you value most. https://gitlab.com/doctorj/interview-questions
Before the internet we were passing video tapes/films, magazines, and prints around with porn and gore. Pre-teen me saw a lot of the kind of things you mention before the internet was a thing. The students at my school had pseudo-competitions for who could get the best porn/gore, earning kudos for the bloodiest gore or "hottest" porn. Often the lines would blur whens someone found scat or snuff but that's a different matter.

Later on in life, I think everyone knew "a guy" at work that had all kinds of taboo material. The Weird Eddies or Creepy Colins of the world had a black-market snatched from them when the internet got popular.
It's more a case of happy people and unhappy people being largely unable to understand each other and then turning their general outlook into a theory of the world. Even a single person can have trouble remembering their own happiness when they sink into depression and their past pain when they are breathing life into their lungs.
As a high school guy, I have to wonder if

> Engaging in physical activity was found to be more important for boys’ mental and emotional health

is because (personal anecdata warning!) guys tend to prefer friends who are physically fit. This is just something I've noticed by observing my school; the stronger guys tend to have a larger social circle.

However, this causation could be flawed, maybe physically active people have better emotional health and that's why people are attracted (friendship-wise) to them.
A doula is a more common version of what you’re describing. A midwife actually delivers the baby.

Anecdotally, I highly recommend a midwife birth versus doctor if you have the option. A midewife’s only job is to deliver healthy babies. Unlike doctors who do many things.

https://www.today.com/health/what-doula-here-s-what-doulas-d...
A random thought: What if the filter back then (I’m 34) helped? Most of the people spending significant time online back then were some degree of nerd (I hope that classification doesn’t offend anyone). Nowadays, it’s everyone.

During the early years of the German equivalent of high school, most of my classmates would spend days without being online once.
It's a trend, yes:

- https://baremetrics.com/open-startups

- https://openstartuplist.com/
I read something like - Butcher buys 1000 cows to keep them away from slaughter house.
It's like magic when it works. But in my experience a bunch of times it doesn't work and it's really not clear why. A shame because as you say, when it works, it works great.
Active and available parenting, ideally starting long before the teen years where they no longer want to take advice from their parents.

Saying that it's 100% impossible to stop kids from using the internet is as true as saying that it's 100% impossible to stop kids from trying alcohol. But there's a difference between a kid getting drunk once at a party and a kid being a habitual, daily alcoholic.

As a parent you want to guide them towards healthy ways to engage with things that could otherwise destroy them in excess. Social media in moderation is fine. Social media in excess isn't, and that's where a lot of parents have left their kids (because even they don't know how to use it in moderation; society hasn't caught up yet).
I've given hundreds of interviews, and here's some that have gotten real-talk answers out of me (both good and bad):

* What's one thing you'd change about <company X>?

* Tell me about the last time you worked past 7pm.

* How surprised were you by your last performance review?

* When's the last time you referred a friend to <company X>?

* Tell me how the last incident you responded to went.

* Tell me about a time you were able to work on something you identified and selected.

* What question is always tough to answer as an interviewer at <company X>?

The one I liked asking as a candidate was:
It's 2 years from now, and <company X> has failed. What happened?

I got some good real talk about that one, and some smoke and mirrors. It was a good baloney extractor.

I think an important thing is to ask interviewers to pick a concrete instance of a thing you're interested in, such as poor work/life balance, and talk about the most recent one. It's easy to say "oh, we have great work life balance," but that's different for everyone, and frankly it's just too easy to gloss over. Ask them why they worked late the last time they worked late.

For example, with your question:

When interviewing perspective employees, does the entire team participate in the interview process and make a hire / no hire decision as a team?

I'd instead ask:

Had you talked with the most recent person who joined your team before they were hired?
I'm a little more ambivalent, myself. But I think I just don't like seeing it at all.

If the entirety of the human were, functionally, a complex organism then the result of this sudden and energy-expensive outgrowth will likely be a sudden and intense immune response that will have effects beyond those directly involved.
I never get anything gore shared to me, but I think it's also because I wouldn't stay friends with anyone who sends me that. I think it's weird that, as a society, we're more OK with violence than sex.
SAP drops support for legacy browsers
Currently queuing, but should be available in 10m or so: https://archive.is/wip/avECz
Staples’ Easy Button is a cheap toy that envisions a perfect button
(Almost) Everything you need to know about Optimistic Rollup
The fact that it's also called when its added to the stack for display. OP should definitely still sanitize on the server, but it's not as bad as it sounds at first glance.

As an exercise I'd love it someone actually posted a payload to exploit that regex.
I'm not sure of your source for net interest payments. The CBO shows them mostly as flat since 2002. And while net interest may have stayed flat recently that is because interest rates are historically low. We are borrowing more money than ever.

See https://www.cbo.gov/publication/56910

Debt as a % of GDP has been rising since 2000. Our ability to fund our government has been lacking every year since 2001, typically with a deficit each year between $500B and 1.5T a year. We are fortunate to have super low interest rates so that our net interest payments stay low while we spend an incredible amount of money we don't have. Part of the health of the economy now depends on excess government spending (which we can't raise enough revenue to fund). So when interest rates rise, which they will do in time, our net interest payments will rise as well.

While our net interest payments rise, our ability to cut government spending or raise taxes seems unlikely to be able to match it. Furthermore, your assertions that economic growth will cover the rise in interest payments does not seem to be a given to me. We have had solid economic growth over the last 20 years, however, our ability to fund our government spending has not changed at all. See the year after year deficits we always run.

CBO estimates that by the end of the decade, net interest payments will double compared to today, reflecting the thought that we are enjoying historically low rates currently: https://www.cbo.gov/publication/56542
I had one of these! It came along with a fun little game called Merlin Racing, a sort of proto-Mario Kart
There are upsides. From providing self estem from a different source from the local.

It has raised awareness like never before.

It has provided an income for some.

It allows new peer groups not available locally

It provides a safer space to interact with strangers.

Where we got it wrong was connecting these profiles to real life names. That has ruined people's lives.
Substack vs. Revue: Who is the winner?
I am afraid of this as well. It's easy to make mistakes and current software doesn't really offer assurances. Right now I sometimes visually compare source & destination directories. Like literally, make the windows the same size and scroll through them so I can notice if anything has visually shifted, which tells me files are missing. That's how I found some missing RAW files, but turns out those were taken on the fuji's auto settings which desn't store RAW even though I have it set up to take JPEG+RAW (many such idiosyncrasies with these cameras).
I then almost had a heart attack when I realized that my camera filenames did a roll over from 9999 to 0001 and I wasn't paying attention. Luckily there was no overlap in that directory, but I could've easily clicked confirm to replace my earlier photos with new ones (DCIM better be replaced with something better soon).
Gamers Nexus found negligible impact from PCIe 4, using RTX 3080 and 4K games to saturate bandwidth so could be a different story from other types of workloads:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DKVVtirNM8
> can be used to silence protests and to hunt down political opposition.

Isn't this what is basically happening right now?

I don't have a horse in the game, but I do remember that quote:

"I do not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it"

When I see lots of "this group denied" and "this online account disabled" stuff, I think they should weather the storm.

I don't know, is this just a control-grab-during-a-crisis move?
They'll still keep popping up. There's profits to be made from "boot camps". A company I worked for a couple years ago partnered up with a UK firm that's doing something similar, so it's spreading.
Well, in Spain I could see Bulma's breasts on manga an Shizuka one's as a dark joke in Doraemon. No one gave a shit, we have far worse real life problems in the 90's.
Yes. And I shudder to think just how many bugs there would be in a home-grown sudo replacement.
Monopolies Slowed the Vaccine Roll-Out, and Small Business Sped It Up
I think they adopted them for good reason and they are good at what they are made for: web pages. It shines in situations where content, behaviour and presentation are seperate concerns.

A good example is a CMS/wordpress (which as we know makes up a third of the internet or something): Editors are concerned with content, themes are concerned with presentation, plugins are concerned with behaviour.

Applications, especially desktop applications, are nothing like that. Seperations of concerns gains you very little there. If it does, its a different separation like M-V-C.
I think all the successful user interface things introduced in the last few years are going for an all in one code approach for good reason: SwiftUI, Flutter, Jetpack Compose, React Native... I may be a little mobile focused?

The options that ios/mac os/android offered for a while to create UI structure seperate from code where not very popular with developers which often preferred to construct and modify the entire UI tree with code "manually".

What‘s the state of the art in windows and linux UI programming?